Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler
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“Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that’s why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.”
— Robert Charles Wilson, book The Chronoliths
Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 13 (p. 156)
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